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What have you found on your ride(s) along the way?

Old 06-02-15, 07:47 PM
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I've got an entire tool box full of tools I've found on rides over the last 30 years. The only find I didn't carry back was a big sledge hammer, it was just too heavy. But I did carry back a couple of standard claw hammers since they were just a few miles from home. Lots of screw drivers and a couple nice adjustable wrenches, even a 3 foot long aluminum level. When I asked a group of cyclist friends this question the best find in the group was a Jack hammer. The guy that found it pushed it to the side of the road and came back in his car to get it.
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One day I saw an eating utensil, a fork, in the road - but I didn't take it.
On another ride, I saw a dime - but I didn't stop on it.
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A couple years ago, I was riding in Minneapolis with a buddy and he spotted a $20. He bought coffee and pastries that day!

Last month I was on the Almanzo 100 and enjoyed the huge number of water bottles littering the road - but the best was cash ($1s and a $5) was on the road, since the Almanzo is a "race" nobody around me was willing to stop and pick it up. We all pointed it out just in case Scrooge McDuck was in the pack and we could get an advantage while he's picking it up. No takers.
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Most recent interesting find was a working wireless headphone set with one bud missing. Found a cute wig once. The group had fun with that for a couple of miles.
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One winter morning commute I found the insert to a cash register drawer. Called the PD, and sure enough a local convenience store had been robbed the night before. The cops wanted me to wait with it, and had a hard time believing I was on a bike and didn't want to spend very long just sitting there in the wind while still sweating. No reward either.
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Old 06-10-15, 03:51 PM
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On my ride yesterday, I came across about a dozen or so rounds of 30 caliber (likely) ammunition lying in the middle of the road. Some had been run over and damaged. I reported it to the police. They apparently picked them up since they were gone when I rode by there today.
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Originally Posted by msbiker
Found a cute wig once. The group had fun with that for a couple of miles.
lol
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Found a really nice, craftsman 9/16 combo wrench. Crescent on one end, 12 point box end on the other. This was from the
days when craftsman quality was still up there.

In the case of tool finds, I would guess they bounce out of some dude's pickup.
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Old 06-12-15, 04:03 AM
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When I was a 12 year old in the late 1950s I was riding in the country lanes with a group of friends when we came across a pile of girlie mags at the side of the road. Probably very tame by today's standards, but not to a bunch of boys, and that was the end of that particular ride.

We were very popular in school for a while.
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Old 06-19-15, 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by oldnslow2
On a number of group rides I had to remind some riders that we do not stop at garage sales.
Then count me out.That's what my Friday rides tend to be. . . .
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Old 06-19-15, 04:31 PM
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My now wife. Many years ago. Nothing really interesting since.
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dirty diapers
empty beer cans
dead critters
and a really cool john Deere hat.
anybody know a good treatment for head lice?
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Originally Posted by avidone1
dirty diapers
empty beer cans
dead critters
and a really cool john Deere hat.
anybody know a good treatment for head lice?
I once found an cap from Panda Express. After thee washings it still smells like fast food grease. My daughter says I shouldn't wear it.
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Old 06-21-15, 01:23 PM
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Here's a fawn that stayed when its mother fled as I approached. This is a crop; the subject was about 40 yards away when I stopped to photograph it.
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Old 07-28-15, 02:34 PM
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Nothing of monetary value - but do get to see a lot more of the Florida wildlife on the bike trails than if I stayed strictly on roads. Yesterday a couple of deer, and a few tortoises. A couple of weeks ago a bobcat crossed the bike path about 30 yards from me. Could have been a Florida Panther but they're rare and even though they've been documented in that area I only saw it for 5 seconds or so while it stopped to check me out while I was stopped too. Then it headed into the woods and disappeared. At first I thought it was a coyote but then realized it was a cat - a BIG cat and I was sitting there several miles from civilization all alone
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Several watches, all working. Have found a few wallets that were returned as intact as when I picked them up. A few cycling related clothing items, the best being a cool Pearl Izumi lightweight jacket that I bestowed upon a friend. Enough tools to stock a small cabinet. Several hundred dollars over the years.

Even more stuff...guess I am just road lucky.
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Found a keyboard....actually a shop floor keyboard computer. Returned it to the software company (there was a Word doc in the floppy drive identifying them.) My reward was a job interview and I ended up switching careers from A&P mechanic to software developer.
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I only stop for cold hard cash

I'm at $25 for the season. A $5 bill blowing around in the parking lot at the local post office (no one around) and a $20 at the top of my driveway on the highway....

It's kept me in chain lube for an entire year. I couldn't be happier
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I once found a mini bike down an embankment in Tomoka State Park north of Daytona Beach when I was 14. And a couple years ago in Colorado near the Taylor Reservoir and river I found a woman's diamond ring after a stage of the US Pro Challenge that I gave to a passing sherif.
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I ride the beach a lot now and I find way more crap than i could ever pick up. Miles of rope, fishing floats, brand new containers of hydraulic fluid, fishing lures, rafts, parts of docks, kids toys, hard case for golf clubs, U.S. flag, clothes (pile pull over, pile hat in excellent shape), tires, tires with wheels, plastic pipe, literally any thing that floats. Then dead things: birds, whales, sea lions, seals, weird fish, deer, elk, otters, no humans...yet. Lots of nice looking driftwood.
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Old 08-01-15, 04:24 PM
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Riding in the Florida keys I've found cash, dexter filet knife, 6' fishing gaff, dive flags, stand-up paddle board paddle, lots of tools, wallets and purses (these get dropped of at the sheriff's office).
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Hi, Guys,

Wow, I've been away awhile, but I can't resist a "junk you find" thread and a chance to post a picture.

Here's a photo taken with the camera I found during a ride. It's actually the second camera I've found:



It's this one:



True, the lens comes out only if I point it down when I turn it on, but apart from that, it works great.

I tried to find the owner based on the photos in it, but had no luck.
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A very nice ( and new and expensive) bait casting reel. a packet of silver (total silver, not plated) dinnerware. A dog collar with tags on it( I messaged the owner and returned it) and lots of arcane and wierd trinkets that I have no use for but collect anyways. Also a replacement plug for an airbed which I found, set aside and needed 4 years later.
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